Classes 2017

Spin Your Own YarnJan. 17 - Mar. 13. Learn to use the simple drop spindle to spin your own woolen yarn for knitting, crochet, or weaving. This hand tool of prehistoric origin is inexpensive, portable, and easy to use. Create a mid-weight yarn suitable for garments, accessories, and household items. Pack all your spinning supplies in a lunchbag-sized tote and take it with you on vacation! Click on Winter Brochure 2017.

Books

The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop®Co-authored by Alice Schlein and Bhakti Ziek. 362 pages, many illustrations. Now available for free download on handweaving.net. The accompanying CD with 1400 pattern presets is not included with the free download, but may be purchased separately. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for more information.

Network Drafting: An IntroductionBy Alice Schlein. Break away from the block. Curves for your dobby loom. Originally published in 1994, now available as print-on-demand from www.lulu.com.

Monographs

A Crepe Is Not Just a Pancake52 pages of text, b&w and color diagrams, and drafts for multishaft tradle & dobby looms. Many color photos of actual cloth. Methods for drafting your own crepe weaves. Annotated bibliography. Pdf available for immediate download. $21. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.

Echo Weave Based on the 1996 article in Weaver's, Issue 32. With brand new diagrams and high resolution scans of original fabrics. Pdf available for immediate download. $7. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.

January 01, 2013

A Fresh Start

You could say that a rainy New Year washes everything clean and fresh. That would be a positive approach.

Best thing to do is to go down to the studio and make books. Here's a book cover I managed to eke out of a small sample of double plain weave. I love this cloth, but there was barely enough for a book cover. I like to leave an inch of margin to turn under; this is barely one half inch. I'm determined to make it work.

While the glue was drying, I sewed the signatures on tapes. Have I ever mentioned that I love this kind of mindless, repetitive work?

A self portrait to mark a new year seemed like a good idea. I tried one of those bathroom mirror shots. Bad idea. It was much too accurate. Where did all those wrinkles come from? Photoshop to the rescue. This is the colored pencil filter. How do they figure these things out? Brilliant.

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A Fresh Start

You could say that a rainy New Year washes everything clean and fresh. That would be a positive approach.

Best thing to do is to go down to the studio and make books. Here's a book cover I managed to eke out of a small sample of double plain weave. I love this cloth, but there was barely enough for a book cover. I like to leave an inch of margin to turn under; this is barely one half inch. I'm determined to make it work.

While the glue was drying, I sewed the signatures on tapes. Have I ever mentioned that I love this kind of mindless, repetitive work?

A self portrait to mark a new year seemed like a good idea. I tried one of those bathroom mirror shots. Bad idea. It was much too accurate. Where did all those wrinkles come from? Photoshop to the rescue. This is the colored pencil filter. How do they figure these things out? Brilliant.